If I Were You - 128: Herpes
Episode Date: January 19, 2015In this episode we discuss ESP and STD's.This episode is brought to you by MeUndies.com, TheBouqs.com, and TaxAct.comSee omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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If I were you, I'd listen to these assholes
They'll let you in on an any day blast
Give some advice, well at least they try
They can make you laugh at least 20% of the time
Torn out motherfuckers, Mondays and Thursdays bitch
Torn out motherfuckers, two guys that don't know shit
When I started playing and I'm like, oh is this like a real song that he sent?
But then he's like, oh no, he's actually singing about it
Yeah, he's like, oh he's making fun of us a little bit
I'll take it
It's a gentle ripping
I'll take the gentle ripping
Because I know he's kidding
I'll take the gentle ripping because I know he's kidding
Yeah, because if that was the truth, I'd kill myself, Ruth
She's silly rhyme, dark concepts
You're funny 20% of the time
Jake Feeney, a singer-songwriter from Toronto
Facebook.com slash Jake Feeney Music
Yeah, that had so much soul
He actually just released his second EP, A Fit of Colors on JakeFeeney.bandcamp.com
Alright
Feeney is F-E-E-N-E-Y
Feeney
Feeney, Feeney
I can't seem to find Feeney
Feeney
If you're Feeney for more Feeney, visit jefffeeney.bandcamp.com
It's Jake
Oh, shit
It's your name, Feeney
Oh, no
I'm the only one that can have it
You're lucky to be sharing a name with someone that's cool
Who's the coolest Jake?
Me
Then
This dude
Then
Jill and Hall
Oh, yeah, that's a good Jake
So you have to share your name with a bunch of cool people
There's not a lot of cool amirs
There's a boxer that's pretty cool
That's cool
Yeah
I think there's
Jake's pretty popular name
I don't know what to do about it
Are you proud?
Like you did something
Well, I'm actually a little pissed
My parents couldn't come up with something original
What?
Like some name that no other person has?
Yeah
That's stupid
How about
Jumpbagin2
That's what you want your name to be
Jumpbagin2
Yeah
You think so
I think so
You think that's an upgrade
I think nobody else has it
That's true
So there we go
It's funny because the 2 is in it
The numeral
Yeah
The numeral 2
Who's Jumpbagin1?
There isn't one
I'm number one and number two
I'm every number Jumpbagin
I never want to talk to you again, sir
That's fine
That's fair
Most people don't
Of course
But at least my parents came up with an original
Goddamn concept
What's your name?
Roy?
That's actually Roy
That's pretty nice
Shit
Can we at least acknowledge how insane that shot in the dark was?
I guessed your freakin' name
Act crazy
That's something that never happens to me
Jumpbagin2
I actually wish I had a normal name
Like Jake
I do hate it when people don't react appropriately to crazy coincidences
Yes
It's hard
I try to
I'm like
You don't understand how huge of a shot in the dark
Like that's a one in a thousand
If I said name and number between number one and a thousand
And then you thought 638
And I said 638
You'd go crazy, right?
Yeah, but like how impressive is it
If you're
If they guess 675
And you're like, oh, it was 638
It was in the 600s
Yeah
That's somewhat close
But it's still like
It's, you know, they're
They're 999 wrong numbers
And they just guessed one of the wrong ones
So it's not that impressive
Yeah, well, what's crazier?
So let's say
I'm saying
Think of a number between one and a thousand
You think of 638
Right
What would be crazier to you
If I said 636
Or if I said 738
I guess, you know
It'd be crazier if you said 630 something
But I guess
Well, let's try it
I'm gonna think of a number between one and a thousand
All right
Okay
Yeah, you got it
Oh, no, I just
It can't be 638
It has to be a random one
638
It wasn't 638
All right, let me actually guess that
All right
One in a thousand?
Yeah
I keep on thinking I'm mouthing the number
Yeah
It's so scary
I don't want you to guess it
This is so exciting for us
It's so boring for everyone else
We lost every listener
All right, I think I got it
What is it?
901
Wow, it's 802
Really?
Yeah
That's not bad
That sounds kind of impressive
Isn't that kind of close?
That's it
That's pretty close
Yeah, that's like an interesting version of
One over each
No, the zero stood
Oh, yeah
Obviously the zero was the pillar
Yeah
Was it really 802?
Yeah, it was
So I think 901 is closer than just a
I'm kidding, it was 240
This is how are you?
It was 802
It was 901
It was 802
Oh, wait, 801, what did I say it was?
I said 901, you said 802
Oh, right, right
So it was one up, one up, one middle, and then a down
Yeah, wow, that is interesting
It's symmetrical
Yeah
I told you that my friend over things
I'm a little bit psychic
Yeah
I think, I mean, you are very good at
Yesing birthdays
Though I will say
When we do that trick together on people
It rarely works
I'm just as close
Yeah, because there's no such thing as
Being a little bit psychic
Right, it's just like weird little
But still, 901, 802
Maybe I just play guessing games a lot
Right, well, I think, because I think it's easy
I feel like every time we've done the
Birthday thing, it's like, oh, you're a
You're a summer baby
I can tell
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You're a winter birthday
We do a season and thing
Yeah, and then once we get that
Then it's a lot easier
It's game over
Right, enough about this shit
Sure
This is If I Were You
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And
You
Yay
I'm Amir
I'm Jake
This podcast is an advice podcast
People email us at ifirishow
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We are the kings of
Wishful thinking
I'm king of wishful thinking
And I'll toot our own horn
Because usually we're just like
We don't know anything
Right
We are good at
Sort of
Knowing 18 to 30 year old habits
Yeah
I think at this point
We've read thousands of emails
Yeah
We've gotten our practice
We've had follow up pups
We've gotten live advice
At the live shows
I don't know what's normal and average
But I think I do know what's good
Yeah
I think we're socially intelligent
Yeah
Emotionally aware
Yeah
We're good at advising
Yeah
We are good at it
I'll own it
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I've earned it
The first question stumps it
Oh, shit
I don't fucking know
I don't have a clue
Alright
These are real emails
From real people
We're gonna give them
Fake names to preserve their anonymity
Do you want to read these?
I feel like I always read them
Or do you want me to read them?
You do always read them
So you should feel like that
Yeah
But do you want me to keep reading?
Do you want to read one?
Sure
I'll read one
Yeah, it'd be nice
Okay, this one's pretty funny
Alright, so you come up with the name
Alright
It's a lady
No
It's a dude
Uh, oh
My name is
Uh
Oh my god, I'm stumped
I definitely want its first name to be Sid
Okay
I just can't quite figure out
What his last name is
Sid
Sal
Sid Sal
I think so
I think his name is
Sid Sal
Sid Sal
Oh
A mosquito just flew out
Sid Sal
Sid Sal writes
I am an 18-year-old high school senior
I guess I shouldn't say where he's from
Uh
Yeah, sure, why not
Don't say where he's from
Okay
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Let's start eating
This is starting to a mad lives
I am a 19-year-old high school frog
Oh lord
Oh
Do you need to cop that out?
Yup
Yeah
This is real
This is happening
It is live and it is raw
The phlegm
You really, you really heard it
You felt it
And it was good
It does feel good to get rid of it
Yeah, wow
That's gonna gross a lot
I bet that grosses a lot of people out
Probably
But I feel about
You know what shouldn't gross people out
Is I feel
A lot healthier
And now
The phlegm was in my throat
Which is the grossest place it can be
Yeah, imagine that
And now it's
It's in mine
It's in the nicest place
I spit it into your mouth
All right
This is from Sid Sal
Kalamazoo
I'm an 18-year-old high school senior
From Kalamazoo
And I have a very awkward situation
I met this girl on Tinder
Not too long ago
And we hit things off
So we arranged to meet up
It went well
So we began to hang out
More and more
Each time it got more and more heated
Soon after
We were full-on hooking up
Ooh
She was extremely good in bed
And she gave head
Like a goddamn porn star
Ooh
But here is where the problem comes in
Oh
One time
When she was giving me some slop top
She looked up at me
Mid-lick
And sang
Take me to the candy shop
Let me lick the lollipop
What the fuck
I could not believe it
When I heard her
It threw me off so much
I couldn't stop cringing
At the thought of it
She was being dead serious
So this wasn't just a failed attempt
At a joke
When she did this
I just ignored her
And tried not to laugh
Because I didn't want to make her feel bad
This is my question
Have you guys ever come across
Something so awkward in bed?
What the hell should I do
If anything like this happens again?
Please help me
Oh
So do you think he gets
He knows that it's a song?
Like he knows that it's a popular song
Or he thinks that she made it up?
I
Really interesting point
I would definitely imagine
He knows this song
So he's like
I'm so turned off by the fact
That she referenced that song
Not like that she just made it up
I don't think he would mention
Like she made up her own song
And these were the lyrics
They matched up to
An actual rap song
If you can imagine
So it's such a funny specific thing
Because it's like
She's trying to be cute and sexy
And he's just like
Oh, don't sing a weird popular song
That is weird
That is so strange
But if somebody did it
I feel like you have to take their intent
At the very least
She's trying to turn you on
Yeah, but what she did in a weird way
She just didn't
And I've been in this situation where
Literally
The girl saying the song
Must have been the same girl or something
Shit
No, but like somebody does something
That just turns you off so much
That it's all you can do
It's all you think about
Every time you see them
It's like that one
Dare you say a specific thing
Huh? Dare you say specifically what it was?
No, I mean I couldn't think
It's happened because
For a while I was just so, so picky
That like somebody doing anything
Like even watching somebody
Eat something I was grossed out by
Like if somebody got like a bloody mare
I'd be like, oh, I can't imagine
Like kissing them
Their breath would taste like pepper and pickles
And now I like don't even want to see them
Like you're saying it's not you, it's me
Wait, yeah, it's not
It's not them, it's you
Yeah, I'm just like that's horrible
Yeah
That being said
I think this guy's thing is a little more valid
Because that it really is so
It's such a turn off
Just imagine a girl, a lady
First of all, if somebody is
I feel like if somebody is giving you oral sex
You have to give her the benefit of the doubt
She's doing like a very selfless act
Right, that's true
So it's like she's got to do a lot to mess it up
Yeah
It's like how you can't get mad at someone
For doing you a favor wrong
Right, like oh, I'll pick you up at the airport
Sorry, I'm 20 minutes late
Yeah, you can't get mad
No, I guess not
You can't get mad but you could say
I'm turned off and I might not ask you to pick me up
At the airport again
Yeah
This will be the last favor you ever give my ass
Because then I mean
It's also representative of a larger thing
Of like what she thinks is sexy
And you might not think
You guys just might find that you've completely
Missed each other on this
And maybe it's
I think you're extrapolating a little too much
I mean this is like one second of a long hookup sesh
Right
And you're just like
Maybe you just don't find each other attractive
I don't know
This is so fucking lame
It's funny to laugh in something
Like he's trying not to laugh at how much
He thought it was pathetic
Yeah, it's so
While she's giving him a beach
I don't know
That shit's cringy
That shit's cringy
Though
That cringy though
So would you say your advice is not to
Sing songs
Popular songs
During sex
Well I don't
I think some people might be turned on by it
I don't think this
In my opinion
I don't think this is the first time she's tried that move
That song's been around for a while
Yes
I think I'm willing to give this girl
More of the benefit of the doubt than you are
Well I just think that
Here's I guess
I think this is a bad
That was a bad move on her part
But I guess it sounds like you at least didn't
React like it totally turned you off
Or on
So maybe she won't try it again
I mean I've had a girl start like rubbing down there
And saying let it grow
Let it grow
Let it grow
Let it grow
It was a full parody
Let it grow
Yeah I think she was a musical improviser
Because it was so good
That would be kinda cool
If somebody asked you what would you do
I think I would have the same reaction
Just like oh
I mean like it's so hard to be
Like dirty talk
Dirty talk is so
You're so self aware
So like I can't imagine like
She's doing so much
And then she's also trying to do that
And then like if it falls short
Like I
Singing just don't sing
Dirty talk's cool
But here's the thing
Like I
What I'm saying
When that's not the first time she did it
Like it did work
And it did turn someone else on
So like it just didn't work on this guy
Well you don't know if it worked
Or if she's done it before
I feel like she wouldn't be doing it again
Like that song came out 10 years ago
It's the rare 50 cent song
I'll make you like a lot of pop
That's a Lil Wayne
What's the Lil Wayne song
That you told me about the other day
Where it's like people metaphorically talking about sex
And then Lil Wayne just goes out
Truffle Butter
It's like everybody just like
Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne
And Drake's like talking about how he like
Wines and Dines people or whatever
Like girls like into Truffle Butter
Nicki Minaj like
Also offhandedly mentions it
And then Lil Wayne is like
I put Truffle Butter on your pussy
Lil Wayne is the animal of the Muppet
Rapper universe
He just like gets lowered in from a cage
And he just says whatever he wants
Like yeah fuck Simley the metaphor
I just put Truffle Butter on your pussy
Alright Lil Wayne
Truffle Butter was representative
Of a high quality pussy
Yeah pussy
And now you're just talking about put
Okay, Wayne
You want to try to lay it down
Like nah spit it from the top of my dome
But okay
That's the thing about Lil Wayne
You have to take the good with the bad
Like he's like
He's like an imperfect relationship
It's like okay something's wrong here
But you have to understand that that's like
The highs are high and the low is the Mariana
Twitch
It does not get lower
So what was the specific question he had
He like
Oh should he discard this lady entirely
I don't think he should discard her entirely
But I mean
How do you de-incentivize
There's a great chance she will never say it again
But what if she says it every time
Then it turns into like a sign
Oh his questions have you guys ever come across
Something so awkward or this awkward
And what should I do if it happens again
So it sounds like he's not writing her off
Which is good like we would both say don't
Abail on this entirely
If it happens again
Which I don't think you're right I don't think it will
But it might
If it happens again
Same exact song same exact line
I guess I would just
I think you should just have your natural reaction
And laugh
I don't know that might really offend her
There's nothing worse than hearing laughter
When you're going down on somebody
I'm being like
Ah fuck
But also you don't have a weird somber conversation about it
It's almost like you want to laugh
Have her get hopefully a little bit
Irked but not like wrecked
Is there a sexy way to say shh
No I think you have to like laugh
Like I'm trying I'm being sexy
Like I'm sorry like singing
Just makes it made me laugh
I think what you're doing is great
But I don't think you also I don't think you
Want to have like a hey stop
Stop what you're doing I don't like
When you sing yeah that's worse
You can't have a conversation mid that
It's better to giggle and have her be upset
And then you explain why
You giggled and get yourself out of trouble
Yeah that's what I think
That's what I would do
Probably
Not do anything because I'd be too scared
To fuck it up
But like what if you
Lose your erection because it's so
Unsexy oh that's
That would have to be really unsafe
A single line that is more
Negative than a blow job is positive
It takes it down
From a hundred to zero
I don't know that'd be amazing
Then she'll notice
Oh maybe that's what
He should go flaccid
That's good advice
Go flaccid
Or come instantly
Either way
Set up a Pavlovian response
That would make this question really interesting
But here's the thing
I was about to come anyway so when she's saying
I came and now she thinks
This is like a modern day
Seinfeld dude
We should tweet it at modern
Seinfeld
Who comes instantly when a girl
Sings a song as he orgasms
Does not want to give her that
Self of like
Make it seem like a reward for her
Alright next question
Yeah sure do I
Have your phone now
This is yours now
Well a lot of selfies
Okay question two
Here we go
This one comes from a
Lady
Her name is
Melrose
And her last name is
Placha
Melrose Placha
Mel
Primrose Placha
Melissa Primrose
Placha
Dilla Placha
You know what fuck it her name is Jessica
Jessica Chastain right
Hey guys here's my situation
I've been dating my boyfriend for three years
Now when we live together
I cheated on him once before but to be fair
He never eats me out and this guy told me
He'd eat me out so then we hooked up
Anyway that guy was a guy I hooked up with
Before I got together with my boyfriend
The reason we stopped hooking up is because
He has general herpes
So that kind of scared me off
But he eats me out and I don't have to do anything to him
Because he has herpes
So anyway it's been five months since I cheated on my boyfriend
But I've been texting the herpes guy for a while
Sexy sexual via text
I really want to hook up with him but I don't want to break up
With my boyfriend because we live together
And it's like really inconvenient
But he, herpes guy, is good at going
Down on me
Anyway I know this is bad of me and I shouldn't do this
But I also really kind of like herpes guy
We get along really well
What would you guys do if you were dating someone
And really liked them and think they're perfect
But then you find out they have herpes
Thanks for the advice
At the end I thought you were talking about our current boyfriend
What would you do if you were dating someone and he's great
But he has herpes
Oh you're talking about the mistress
She went from
Just like saying I kind of want to cheat
But this guy has herpes too
I kind of want to date this guy
What would you do if he has herpes
It sounds like you're already over boyfriend McGee
I feel like there's no reason to stay together with boyfriend
You've already moved on mentally
To a guy that you probably shouldn't have sex with
Unless you're the only person to ever have sex with
It's definitely dangerous to be
Cheating on your boyfriend with somebody
That has genital herpes
Yeah that goes from like emotionally dangerous
To actually physically dangerous
I think don't quote me on this again
But I think you can get herpes
Even if a guy with herpes needs you
Yeah google that we should find that out
I bet they'll say you can
People are usually pretty safe about that
Cause yeah with diseases
They're just like yeah there's a chance
Don't do it
But I want to find out for sure
Like if you have herpes
I don't know if it's localized to just your genitals
You can have like
You know like colesores or herpes on your mouth
I don't know I feel like once it's in you
It can get transferred through your tongue or your peen
Yeah that's
Well
Your default search is fucking Yahoo
You're using a weird browser I think
Not using a weird
I'm using the browser that you use
Well firefox
Yeah I use that
But I only use that to post stuff to our
Podcast humbler
Still you didn't ever
Change your
Your default search
I think I did and it didn't take
Really
Can we get into that
We spent the next half hour on
How to change my default search engine
Wait what are you searching
I don't know
Can you get herpes through
Conilingus
Transmitted from mouth
And actually
The search came up and all these links were clicked
I think you have it
They're all purple
They're purple links
Um
Alright sorry I shouldn't read this
Let's pause for one second
General herpes is a disease caused by the herpes simplex virus
Of which there are two types
Alright are we back
So I just read some of this article
Keep in mind
I'm not doctors and I only skimmed
An article on webmd
But you're safe
Cheat on your boyfriend
I repeat you are safe
Cheat on your boyfriend
So it's I mean it says
Herpes simplex
Two which is genital herpes
Uh huh
Can usually only be
Passed off from like penis to vagina
Or penis to butt or whatever
Penis is the source
Or vagina to penis
Genital to genital
But
It also could
Be passed from his genital herpes
To her mouth to give her oral herpes
Which is I guess
She's saying she's not doing anything to him
Which is essentially I suppose that's okay
But
But once you're in there and things are getting swapped
But the other thing like
Herpes is like
A disease that's always like
And changing so it's
I don't think it's ever that safe to be hooking up
With somebody that has
The herpes virus
I mean unless you're
Unless you're like I'm gonna marry this guy and then
We're just gonna both have herpes together
Sure but I think there's also complications
If you're a lady who gets herpes
It's um
Pregnancy is dangerous for you
So even if you're gonna enter a relationship
I would say like try not to get the herpes
Yeah
I don't know that
I don't know
But definitely
You're putting the boyfriend you live with
At risk of
You giving him herpes from cheating on him
Which is I think like the meanest thing
You can do to someone
Breaking up with them and then giving them a disease
Like hey I'm sorry I cheated on you
I don't want to be with you
Also get tested you have herpes
It's all
All bad
A nice thing to do to someone
So the specific question is
What would you guys do if you were dating someone
And really like them and think they're perfect
But then you find out they have herpes
Which is totally unrelated to their case
Yeah
She already knows this guy is herpes
And she's cheating on her boyfriend
So the advice that you didn't ask us for
That we're giving you anyway
Is don't be with your boyfriend
And then if you want to be with this guy that has herpes
If that's a con
Break up with him
But especially so
If it's with a guy with herpes
I would say it's
An urgent situation if you're about to
Cheat on your boyfriend with somebody who has herpes
Yeah because this guy's already gone down on you
Yeah so stop what you're doing
Break up with your boyfriend immediately
Yeah
And then
If you want to be with a guy with herpes
Look into the actual risks
And see if they're worth the reward
Talk to a real doctor because I think there's
Like some kind of complication with pregnancy
And
Yeah whatever
So to answer your question
What would you do
What would you do if you really like them
And they are perfect but then you find out they have herpes
What would you do?
I guess if there's like
If they check off literally every other box
Then it's like oh this is the thing we can get through
Cause like I'm sure if I found
A soul mate and wanted to get married
And then they got herpes I wouldn't abandon ship
So
Doesn't it make sense not to abandon ship
But then the problem is if I don't even know them yet
Like if the first thing I learned about them
Is herpes they start with such a net negative
That I don't really think that they can climb out of that hole
Yeah that's so like if I'm dating someone
And they're perfect and I love them
And then I find out they have herpes
It's like they're not perfect
Cause they lied to me about having herpes for a long time
Yeah
That's a mathematical way to think about it
Don't let me lose you yet
God my erections gone
Thanks bud
Herpes is negative
There's a scale
A partner is on a scale
Best is 100
Worst is negative 100
If they're in the positives you marry them
Really? Yeah
If they're even at a 2?
Yeah you'll marry them
That's what you dock for herpes
This girl's got to be a perfect 100
Going forward for her to end up at 1
And it fits the last thing
I know about a 100
And she gets doubt 99
But if the first thing I learned about her
Is a negative 99
You're not climbing out of this hole
What are the odds that you're
Not only you're 6 foot 4
200 pounds
All the things that I think are a perfect woman
One tit, a double D
I mean you know what I like
Another one's inverse
Strawberry brunette
I take issue with your
Putting somebody at a negative 100
For having herpes
Negative 99
I take issue with it
I do
I mean I don't think
A lot of people get herpes
Completely by accident
You're gonna give them that fine
Well the fine is not
You owe me cash
Or I am hurting you
You're saying they're an outcast in society
They can't
They can't pursue an eligible bachelor
Like yourself
No absolutely I'm not saying that
I'm saying on my compass
On my scale
Those numbers can be any
Somebody would look for herpes is a leper to you
That's what you're saying
It's like if someone like what you give
What your biggest penalty would be
Is a girl who
Says that she loves Jesus
And thinks that all
Non-believers are going to hell
You'd give that person
A huge deficit
I don't have a scale like you do
Probably
Is she fucking hot or not
That would be probably bigger
That would be a minus 101
That even if she was perfect she couldn't get back to
Positive territory
And you're saying that all people that are religious
Find someone
I'm just saying for myself
I wouldn't want to necessarily start a relationship
With someone that I know has an STD
That's what
The issue is for me
Where
I think somebody that has herpes
Can be lovely
And charming and beautiful
And whatever
But I would take pause
Entering a relationship with them
Because I would be at risk
Of myself for having herpes
And if our relationship doesn't work out
Then where does that put you when you leave
Sure
You have to disclose to anybody
You would date that you have herpes
Henceforth negative 99
Everything you're saying
Is what I'm saying
I'm just giving it a number
Quantifying it makes
It makes it negative 99
It's like putting the Jewish star
On somebody
You're a Hitler of dating
A Hitler of dating
That is what my okCupid
Profile pic says
The picture, not even the bio
You should make your okCupid
Name
I hate Hitler
Instead of hailHitler
It just says hateHitler
I wonder if anybody's name is I hate Hitler
Not their name
On the dating profile
Their actual name
I hate Hitler
And then I just commented on everybody's
Photos like wow
I guess Abigail 2929
Kind of likes Hitler
The very least she's neutral about it
Not wanting to take a stance on her name
Sorry I'm the one with the cojones to say anything
But I guess I'm
Kind of a hero in that regard
Do we give this girl enough advice
Yeah to not cheat on her boyfriend
And to only enter this relationship
If she really really really thinks this guy
Could be the one
Otherwise you can find other people
To eat you out
You might want to talk to your boyfriend about it
I'm sure he'd rather go down on you
Than have somebody that has herpes go down on you
While he's still living with you
If given the opportunity I feel like
He wouldn't be into that one
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Like we are going to be in Austin
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This episode comes out on the week we're gonna be in Austin
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I hate Hitler
Is taken
He's private
He has one follower and he's following one person
He's squatting
I feel like we can rescue that name
For you if you really want it
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Comes out on January
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Are you excited to turn 32?
I think everything now
Is sort of nothing until 40
Right
Like 31, 32, 33, 34
Did 30 feel big when you turned 30?
Yeah, that feels like the start of a new decade
Right
You're no longer a 20-something
You'll feel it in August
I know, I wonder
I haven't felt anything since 25
25 felt like, oh my god
I had a lot of things I wanted to do
By the time I...
People put that on that age
For whatever reason
If I do this by the time I'm 25
That'll be impressive
I want to do this by the time I'm 25
I'm definitely becoming less impressive
With every year I grow older
I think once we enter 30
It's, I mean
Like people win real awards at this point
Like 32 year old writers are actually
If we got a TV show on the air or something
Nobody will be like, oh my god
And you're so young, this is crazy
It would just be like, oh, it's about time
Yeah, what took you so long
This is basically a decade since college
Right
I should have a review and audit of my life
Like what have I done since college
And am I proud of anything
Yeah, I would say
No, not yet
Nothing I've done so far
Would, I would chalk it up
And I had a similar review with my parents
And I may agree
They actually led the review
I was actually feeling pretty good up until the point where
They told me I was a failure
That I was going to have a review
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Sure
Alright, well we need a name
Quincy
And actually he names somebody else
So I need, I guess I'll just name
The person in his story Quincy
Oh, he should be named Quincy
Quincy and Sydney
All I can think of is Sydney
What's up, Jakey Boy and Amir
I'm 18 and have been in a good relationship
With an awesome girl for a year
She always gets really jealous of this other girl
Sydney, that I've been really good friends with
For a couple of years
I have to admit, she's pretty damn fine
But we are genuinely nothing but friends
One time when me and her were hanging out
Watching Taken 2, she farted on my foot
Anyway, Sydney asked me to do her homework
For her one time and I jokingly replied
I'll do it for nudes
And she took the bait
And sure enough, she sent me some nudes
And they were awesome
This was a few weeks back and then today
She said she'd make a video of her masturbating
Again, does this mean she wants my D?
Or does she really just hate accounting?
Her friend did jokingly tell me
She did one time, am I a cheating asshole for this?
I mean, I didn't send her anything
Also, is this prostitution?
IDK, I'm probably going to keep doing it though
Should I not?
Great question
Let's assume this girl's 18
Because otherwise I feel like this is illegal
What we are doing is illegal
Otherwise we're calling the authorities
So, this girl
I like the
statement
I jokingly asked for nudes and she did it
She didn't get that I was just kidding
There was more back and forth than that
She took the bait
I guess I'll get the nudes now
You did the homework
You took the bait
You weren't kidding sir
You did her homework for her
Is it cheating
to get videos?
Those are very specific videos to him
I mean, it's all
I think it's all on the cheating spectrum
How mortified would you be
if your girlfriend found out
and how hurt would she be if she found out?
This girl already assumes that they're hooking up
She's got the hot best friend thing going on
which is girls
girlfriends don't like that
I don't think cheating
is necessarily
You don't quantify it
in the way of
I went this far with somebody
or they only sent me videos
or I only
got a hand job
It's not about that
because this dude could take
This dude could find
anything impersonal
You could have sex with her and be like
It didn't mean anything to me
So how can you say what it meant?
It's all about how the other person
how your loved one feels
So if your loved one is fine
or then cheating is
fine?
If your loved one is
I don't care if you sleep with other people
that's like some
kind of open relationship or whatever
I don't care if you flirt using social media
I don't think
very many relationships
are
that laid back
This is kind of standard
cheating
I don't want you following any guys on twitter babe
Well then that guy should be broken up
So like
what's
the disconnect? What's more important?
Who do you side with
if this
girl found out and she was really hurt
would you be like oh yeah this guy is an asshole
Yes you would
I think it's just subjective
but the masses would agree
that this guy is a cheating asshole
and if you were just following a bunch of
models on instagram
that posted pictures of themselves in thongs
that's not cheating
it's like very passively
ogling you're being sort of a skis
but not really
but like that's not cheating
this is him like
pursuing something
illicit that would get his girlfriend upset
I will say that
accounting is really shitty
Yeah but would you make a video of yourself
orgasming and saying someone's name?
Yeah that's very specific
it sounds like she's into him if she's willing to do that
if she came up with that
Yeah and you know if maybe it sounds like
you might just like this other girl
which is fine but you should break up with your girlfriend
I feel like 18 year olds shouldn't be
in relationship there's so much like
hormones
and opportunities there that's like
it's impossible to keep that caged
Yeah why would you?
Yeah I don't want to tell an 18 year old to just like
shut everything off that's the prime
of your life right there
The advice is to
not cheat on your girlfriend but also break up
with your girlfriend
You just don't need it
At this point the next four years
you're just supposed to
take in as much as possible
don't shut anything off
You're with a girl for five years
at this point and then you break up with her
and then it's like oh there's five years of
nudes that I could have gotten
or experiences that I could have
attained
relationship he could have explored and grown
with somebody and gotten close
with one human being and have a
strong connection
There's that too for sure
But then like a video of a girl
nutting as she says
Quincy
Quincy
Quincy for the wincy
Have her do it
while she's singing that lollipop song
The Candy Shop
Quincy takes me to the lollipop
Is it cheating? Sort of, yeah
Is this girl into him?
Sort of, yeah
Girls don't do that
just for homework
She feels close or comfortable enough with you
Yeah, I think right now you haven't
crossed the line because you haven't gotten
the video you haven't
Now he got nudes
And that's like not great
But let's say that's still
a little okay
Now you know
In the beginning
he didn't necessarily know
I said jokingly
nudes, then I did the homework
not really knowing what was going to really happen
she sent nudes
and
now you know
do you take that and exploit it further
which is the bad guy thing to do while you have a girlfriend
or do you say, whoa
that was intense
I don't want to do that, I want to be a decent guy
to my girlfriend
Yeah, just be a good guy
is the general good move
And if you're a good guy
then you can
politely break up with your girlfriend
that's still a good guy move
and then you're single
then it's a pretty good guy move to just flirt and hook up with whoever you want
and that's okay
But what if she's like, why are you breaking up with me
and then he's like, well I kind of want to see
these nudes from that girl that you're jealous about
Well that's too specific of a reason
but you just say I'm not
jealous anymore and I can't give you
the kind of attention and love that you deserve
because you don't feel it
So you're saying like pass it off like
you deserve more than what I'm willing to give you
How can she get mad at that
You can't and that's the beauty of it
That's why it's the perfect breakup
You put it on you
Yeah, it's not you
it's me
Of course, there it is
Now I kind of want to get
together with someone just so I can break up with them
I love that fucking thrill
the conversation you sit someone
down you stare in the eyes and you say
I'm
done
with you
and me together
and to just feel that
God, you've been not talking about it like this
it gives me anxiety
It's the worst feeling in the world
Some people never feel it
Some people never
have to break up, they only get broken up with
or they just stayed with their first love
and they don't know what it's like
Yeah, well
Thoughts?
It's not good, well I've never been broken up with have you?
What's going on behind me?
Did you see that?
Yeah, I brought a package
A big one, oh shit
That's the pop of shot
We got a pop of shot
That's right everybody
We bought an arcade basketball game
Jealous much?
Do we have to sign for it?
There he is, oh he just waves
He must be a podcast fan
The way he waved to us was very knowing
He took a selfie
Alright, let's go play pop of shot
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